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Interpretive Planning for Museums Oregon Museum AssociationHood - - PDF document
Interpretive Planning for Museums Oregon Museum AssociationHood - - PDF document
Interpretive Planning for Museums Oregon Museum AssociationHood River, OregonSeptember 10, 2018 What are your organizational... Needs? Assets? Constraints? Who is your audience? Current? Aspirational? What is your big idea? What is the
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Group 1: Bend
A funder is willing and able to make a huge contribution to create a new museum in your community. Their drive is to “rebrand” the town as a center of culture. Collections currently include:
- Taxidermied Husky Dog
- Endangered salamander
- Unidentified dinosaur bone
- Creepy doll collection
- Letters written by Jimmy Carter
to his mom
Group 2: Oregon City
Your museum has existed for over 112 years, but people rarely visit it anymore. The board fears that if you don’t reimagine your organization, it will fold. Collections currently include:
- Obscure tractors and farm
equipment
- Medicine bottles from a
Chinese apothecary
- Meteorite fragments
- Tidal pool animals preserved in
formaldehyde
- A set of blue blocks
- Model of a steam engine
Group 3: Grants Pass
Your roadside attraction is in a plain rental building on the highway. The historic gas station across the street closes, and you will be moving into the building. Collections currently include:
- Gas station advertisements
from the early 1900s
- Antique furniture
- Costumes from productions of
Cervantes plays
- Contemporary Pacific NW
Native artists
- Holographic art